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The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission
The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission wherein is discovered, the nature, causes, and cure of those sins / by Geo. Swinnock.
London: printed for Geo. Swinnock, 1675
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Chapter 41: The grand cause of sins of Omission. An unregenerate heart, with the cure of it; a rene…
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1. Make sure of a change in thy Judgment concerning Sin and Obedience. By nature thou hast looked on Sin, as Achan on the Wedge of Gold, and David on Bathsheba as lovely and desirable; thou hast beheld it through the Devils Spectacles, and so hast judged it eligible, if still thou art of the same mind; though thou mayst for shame or fear forbear it a while, yet as two Lovers parted by their Parents contrive and conspire how to meet together, and do find some opportunity or other concurring with their desires; so thou wilt find some time to give thy old beloved ⟨p. 379⟩Lusts a visit, and as close and fond embraces as ever. There is a necessity of being renewed in the Spirit of thy Mind, if thou wouldst not be conformable to the World in sin and folly, Rom. 12.2. Formerly thou hast looked on Holiness as a mean contemptible thing, as a foolish ridiculous thing, as a fruitless unprofitable thing, Joh. 7.48, 49. 1 Cor. 2.14. Job 21.15. Mal. 3. and thereupon hast turned thy back upon it: If thou art still of the same Opinion, thou will be still of thine old ungodly Conversation. Till thy Mind be enlightened to see the beauty of Holiness, the excellency of Obedience, the equity of the Divine Precepts, the Right and Title that God hath to thy Person and Service, thou wilt never perform Duties to any purpose.
1. Make sure of a change in thy Judgment concerning Sin and Obedience. By nature thou hast lookt on Sin, as Achan on the Wedge of Gold, and David on Bathsheba as lovely and desirable; thou hast beheld it through the Devils Spectacles, and so hast judged it elegible, if still thou art of the same mind; though thou mayst for shame or fear forbear it a while, yet as two Lovers parted by their Parents contrive and conspire how to meet together, and do find some opportunity or other concurring with their desires; so thou wilt find some time to give thy old beloved ⟨p. 379⟩